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18 Apr 2007, 8:29 am
Decisions of the Board, in general, may be appealed to the Federal Circuit. [read post]
27 Jul 2011, 3:01 pm
Case Law of the Boards of Appeal, 6th edition 2010, I.D.8.1; T 641/00 [7]). [read post]
27 Apr 2011, 3:01 pm
That is the question the Board had to deal with in the present case.The applicant lodged an appeal against the decision of the Examining Division (ED) refusing its application. [read post]
6 Aug 2012, 5:01 pm
The criteria set out by the Enlarged Board of Appeal in the aforementioned decisions may only be applied to claims directed to the use of a substance for achieving an effect and cannot be extended to claims to a process for producing a product characterised by process steps, wherein the purpose of carrying out said process steps is indicated in the claim (see decisions T 1179/07 [2.1.3], T 1343/04 [2] and T 1049/99 [8.4.4,8.5]). [2.5] For the above reasons, the… [read post]
13 Oct 2010, 3:01 pm
The Enlarged Board (EBA) held in decision G 3/99 that an opposition filed by several persons in common is to be dealt with as an opposition filed by only one party and such a group of common opponents is to be considered as a single party represented by a common representative (see Reasons, point [15]). [read post]
24 Jun 2012, 3:41 am
Nor is the Enlarged Board aware of any divergence in this case law, suggesting that the Boards are in general quite comfortable with it. [read post]
5 Oct 2008, 5:20 pm
He did not disclose this information to the Board, and was sued in 2005. [read post]
2 Apr 2024, 4:50 am
The Court of Appeal considered the correct approach to plausibility and in doing so interpreted the Enlarged Board of Appeal’s decision in G2/21. [read post]
15 Dec 2010, 2:17 am
Highlights this week included: EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal decides Broccoli (G2/07) and Tomatoes (G1/08) – essentially biological breeding processes not patentable (IPKat) (IP Watch) (K’s Law) US IRS issues notice to implement annual fee on brand drugs (FDA Law Blog) Please join the discussion by adding your comments on any of these stories, and please do let us know if you think we’ve missed something important, or if there is a source you think should… [read post]
5 Mar 2019, 2:08 am
The present Board (3.5.03) considered in particular the question of the right venue of the Boards of fundamental importance for ensuring a uniform application of the law in all appeal proceedings, and decided to refer the following questions (loosely translated from the original German wording) to the Enlarged Board:(1) In appeal proceedings, is the right to oral proceedings under Article 116 EPC restricted if the appeal is prima… [read post]
20 Jan 2011, 3:01 pm
The Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) explained in decision G 1/06 [5.3;9.2] why the legal security of third parties is sufficiently protected when A 76(1), second sentence, is interpreted as referring to the whole technical content of the earlier application as filed, rather than only to the claimed subject-matter of the earlier application as filed. [8] Hence the relevant question in the present case is not, as argued by the ED, whether the subject-matter of claims 1 and 4… [read post]
5 Dec 2009, 10:49 am
When filing an appeal after its application had been rejected, the applicant did not know that the Board of appeal would find a formal reason for invalidating the rejection, based on the fact that the decision was not signed by all three examiners. [read post]
18 Mar 2011, 1:19 am
The exclusion of "computer programs as such" is - in accordance with the case law of the EPO Boards of Appeal (cf. [read post]
23 Mar 2012, 9:50 am
For the ultimate authority on practice in the EPO, it is necessary to refer firstly to the European Patent Convention itself including the Implementing Regulations, the Protocol on the Interpretation of Article 69 EPC, the Protocol on Centralisation, the Protocol on Recognition, the Protocol on Privileges and Immunities and the Rules relating to Fees, and secondly to the interpretation put upon the EPC by the Boards of Appeal and the Enlarged Board of… [read post]
26 Feb 2012, 5:01 pm
As the Enlarged Board of appeal has explained in decision G 1/05 [11.1], “[u]nder the EPC the filing date of the root application is the only filing date which can be attributed to a divisional application, by way of the legal fiction contained in Article 76(1), second sentence, second half sentence, EPC […]. [read post]
30 Jul 2012, 5:01 pm
This is the (final) decision in the case that led to decision G 2/10 of the Enlarged Board (EBA)Claim 1 of the main request before the Board read:1. [read post]
31 Aug 2015, 1:47 am
Never too late 59 [week ending on Sunday 16 August] - Fundamental deficiency in an EPO decision need not be a problem |Benedict Cumberbatch versus admiring audience | Emma Perot on graffiti as dress art | Location of London's division of the UPC | Cool, confident and healthy: Katonomy meets Jawbone and Fitbit |Planning permission and that London UPC venue |Partial priority and poisonous provisionals: questions for EPO Enlarged… [read post]
7 Feb 2019, 6:37 am
IPR2018-01154 targeting claims 15-20 of the U.S. envelope tracker patent is most interesting in this regard as the claims and the prior art references are most similar to the issues before the EPO's opposition division.The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), which had previously instituted two inter partes reviews of the envelope tracker patent, yesterday granted two more petitions, resulting in a total of four IPRs… [read post]
24 Sep 2014, 7:13 am
As counsel for Velocys accepted, Velocys would not be able to make such amendments in the context of EPO opposition proceedings by virtue of Rule 80 of the EPC Implementing Regulations: see T 993/07 Fisher-Rosemount/Field device management system(unreported, 20 May 2010) cited in Case Law of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office (7th edition) at p. 899. [read post]
12 Sep 2014, 1:45 am
Says Katfriend and local Union boss Gwilym Roberts: “Union are delighted to welcome Mr Wim Van der Eijk, Enlarged Board of Appeal Chairman at the European Patent Office, as speaker at their next dinner on 23 September 2014. [read post]
